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The Mobile Machines and Vision Laboratory (MMVL) is a research group under the Centre for Automation and Robotics Research (CARR) within the Materials and Engineering Research Institute (MERI). The expertise within the MMVL group are diverse but it includes a long standing presence on open-source Computer Vision / Machine Perception, as well as Embedded Systems Engineering and Human Machine interfaces, in relation to mobile robotics research and its applications.
The main theme of our research is on the connection of artificial perception and physical action. Perception requires extensive processing and interpreting of data generated by sensors. We employ a wide range of perception sensor modalities and sensing technologies, including various types of cameras, ranging lasers and ultrasound devices. Actions are typically performed by robots and multi robot teams, ranging from large to medium and small sized mobile robots. The robots and sensors are applied in structured environments and human machine interactions play an important role.
The MMVL has had a long presence in delivering UK Research Councils and European Union projects since 1997; such as, Miniman, Micron, I-SWARM, GUARDIANS, VIEW-FINDER and Nanorobotics (also see past projects). Currently the MMVL is participating in EU-FP7 projects REPLICATOR and DHRS-CIM (also see present projects). Furthermore we are relatively active in the area of Medical Electronics Engineering Research. We are also actively involved in consultancy for industry.
| Past Projects | Present Projects | ||
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 MINIMAN |
 MiCRoN |
 VIEW-FINDER |
 REPLICATOR
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 I-SWARM |
 Nanorobotics |
 GUARDIANS |
DHRS CIM |
 HornetsEye (Ruby) |
 Mimas (C++)
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 Medical Image Processing |
 Robot Automation
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- If you would like to know more on our consultancy activities, please contact Sheaf Solutions Consultancy.
- If you are a student or potential intern, interested in taking-up a project with us, please check our project suggestions. We are open to any ideas and suggestions as long as it is within the remit of the group's interests.
- If you need assistance, please visit the help section.
http://vision.eng.shu.ac.uk/mmvlwiki/ is the short URL for this web page.
News
TAROS 2011: Conference organisation
26th Nov 2010: Sheffield Hallam University via the MMVL group is co-organising TAROS 2011 conference in collaboration with the University of Sheffield. For more information see here. The call for papers is available here.
DHRS-CIM EU project Marie Curie exchanges
10th Sep 2010: The DHRS-CIM project EU-FP7 People Network project, has now had several active exchanges between MMVL (SHU, UK) and D-CIS Lab (Thales R&D, NL) during Aug and Sep 2010. These exchanges are in the context of the project and have been performed on a visiting researcher basis. For more information consult the DHRS-CIM page or contact us.
GUARDIANS EU project successfully completed
12th July 2010: The GUARDIANS project EU-FP6-IST, was successful according to the European Union Panel Review Report. The overall contribution was labelled as 'excellent' with the experimentation and results as 'very good'. The works on plume olfactory navigation, robot-human team cooperation and interfacing, were deemed as 'impressive' and 'well presented'. The VF final project report is available here. More...
ViewFinder (VF) EU project successfully completed
5th July 2010: The VF project EU-FP6-IST, was successful according to the European Union Panel Review Report. The overall contribution was labelled as 'sufficient' with the experimentation and results as 'good'. The works on depth recovery and point-cloud rendering were deemed as 'promising' and 'novel'. The VF final project report is available here. More...
Thesis on 3-D surface reconstruction
7th Apr 2010: Kim Chuan has published his PhD thesis on Development of 3-D Surface Data Acquisition System Using Non-Calibrated Laser Alignment Techniques. More...
Robotic centre launch event
22nd January 2010: The Centre for Automation and Robotics Research (CARR) will be opened by Professor Noel Sharkey from Sheffield University. The launch will include demonstrations of the GUARDIANS- and VIEW-FINDER-project. Jacques Penders was interviewed on BBC radio (at 22m 07s of the 30 mins show).
RISE 2010 conference
20th-21th January 2010: The 2010 conference on Risky Intervention and Surveillance /Maintenance of the Environment (RISE) is taking place at Sheffield Hallam University (Owen 1028). More...
Rubyconf 2009 presentation video
20th January 2010: Confreaks made a video of the Rubyconf 2009 presentation about HornetsEye. More...
Robobuilder programming
4th October 2009: A new fun project is about writing a Ruby-extension to control a Robobuilder Huno. The aim is to prototype robotic applications involving machine vision. More...
HornetsEye-0.32 released
8th August 2009: A new version of the HornetsEye computer vision library was released. The core of the library was rewritten and it features a much more versatile type system, extended element selectors, array views, and tensor operations. Maps, warps, and masks now work on single elements as well as sub-arrays. A conversion to OpenCV::CvMat and back was implemented. Furthermore a GNUplot example was added. More...
Closed-loop control in a TEM
26th June 2009: A software demonstrating vision-based closed-loop control in a TEM was tested today. In the end we succeeded to demonstrate vision-based closed-loop control. More...
Telemanipulation proof-of-concept
30th April 2009: A prototype software for telemanipulation in a TEM was tested successfully. More...
Older News
Older news can be found in the news archive.
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